The generation of antibody-secreting plasma cells

SL Nutt, PD Hodgkin, DM Tarlinton… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
The regulation of antibody production is linked to the generation and maintenance of
plasmablasts and plasma cells from their B cell precursors. Plasmablasts are the rapidly …

Germinal centres and B cell lymphomagenesis

K Basso, R Dalla-Favera - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2015 - nature.com
Germinal centres (GCs) are involved in the selection of B cells secreting high-affinity
antibodies and are also the origin of most human B cell lymphomas. Recent progress has …

Super-enhancer hypermutation alters oncogene expression in B cell lymphoma

E Bal, R Kumar, M Hadigol, AB Holmes, LK Hilton… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
and remains incurable in around 40% of patients. Efforts to sequence the coding genome …

Small-molecule-induced polymerization triggers degradation of BCL6

M Słabicki, H Yoon, J Koeppel, L Nitsch… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Effective and sustained inhibition of non-enzymatic oncogenic driver proteins is a major
pharmacological challenge. The clinical success of thalidomide analogues demonstrates …

Disruption of KMT2D perturbs germinal center B cell development and promotes lymphomagenesis

J Zhang, D Dominguez-Sola, S Hussein, JE Lee… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Mutations in the gene encoding the KMT2D (or MLL2) methyltransferase are highly recurrent
and occur early during tumorigenesis in diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and …

Genetics of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

L Pasqualucci, R Dalla-Favera - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2018 - ashpublications.org
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), the most frequent subtype of lymphoid malignancy,
remains a significant clinical challenge, as∼ 30% of patients are not cured. Over the past …

EZH2 is required for germinal center formation and somatic EZH2 mutations promote lymphoid transformation

W Béguelin, R Popovic, M Teater, Y Jiang, KL Bunting… - Cancer cell, 2013 - cell.com
The EZH2 histone methyltransferase is highly expressed in germinal center (GC) B cells and
targeted by somatic mutations in B cell lymphomas. Here, we find that EZH2 deletion or …

Genetic alterations and their clinical implications in DLBCL

Y Miao, LJ Medeiros, Y Li, J Li, KH Young - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2019 - nature.com
Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a highly heterogeneous lymphoid neoplasm with
variations in gene expression profiles and genetic alterations, which lead to substantial …

Double-hit B-cell lymphomas

SM Aukema, R Siebert, ED Schuuring… - Blood, The Journal …, 2011 - ashpublications.org
In many B-cell lymphomas, chromosomal translocations are biologic and diagnostic
hallmarks of disease. An intriguing subset is formed by the so-called double-hit (DH) …

The cell-cycle regulator c-Myc is essential for the formation and maintenance of germinal centers

DP Calado, Y Sasaki, SA Godinho, A Pellerin… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Germinal centers (GCs) are sites of intense B cell proliferation and are central for T cell–
dependent antibody responses. However, the role of c-Myc, a key cell-cycle regulator, in this …